<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Recovering media images</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../include/dvdisaster.css"> </head> <body> <!-- Title header --> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tr> <td align="left"> <span class="fxxl"><b>dvdisaster</b></span> <i>Version 0.72.4 / 0.72 (pl4)</i> </td> <td align="right"> <span class="fxxl"> </span><a href="http://dvdisaster.net/en/">To the Internet version</a> <a href="../cs/howtos40.html"></a> <a href="../de/howtos40.html"></a> <a href="../ru/howtos40.html"></a> </td> </tr> </table> <!-- Language chooser or separator --> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="hsep"></td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" style="height: 10px"> </td></tr> </table> <!-- Main body (Navigation, actual page content, optional news column) --> <table width="100%" cellspacing=0> <tr> <!-- Navigation --> <td style="background-color:#f0f0f0; 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